frederick augustus washington bailey later changed his name to frederick douglasss to elude capture. he escaped bondage, arriving in newport in 1838. historian lee blake explains why he could not stay there. >> because newport, rhode island is a slave state. one thing people forget is how involved rhode island was in the slave trade. many slave ships that came into the united states came into rhode island. pamela: but douglass and his new wife do fd safe harbor briefly in newport with the free black family of isaac rice. the rice homestead still stands on the corner of thomas and williams streets and was a station on the underground railroad. the douglasses were whisked by stagecoach to new bedford. blake, who is president of the new bedford historic society, says it is to this whaling city neighborhood,ow the historic district abolition rope, that douglass is sent. he has his first taste of life as a free man in the home of nathan and polly johnson. what road did -- what role did this house have in shaping frederick douglas's life? >> nathan and polly johnson, african-american entre

guest: i agree with frederick.t's going to take working on and improving the efficiency to our health care system. on medicaid it's important to realize it is a joint federal state program the federal government is financing 50% on average for those traditional enrollees, the enrollees brought in through the affordable care act. states right now are sitting on $7 trillion of cash and financial assets. with the federal government has done is issued debt so states, so that we can afford and then states can cover individuals like this with their own resources. there is an incentive per state to spend more because when they spend more they get more resources from washington. they don't have good incentives to focus on value and i think there is emerging evidence that states have expanded medicaid. we didn't do anything to increase the number of doctors and nurses in the country. we have to do something to increase the supply of health care. we have this surge of individuals with demand and you don't do anything about t

frederick douglas -- look, we have a lot to do.the -- when the project is done, the train will travel through this tunnel at 110 miles per hour rather than 0 miles per hour. trains will go from here to washington in 30 minutes. on an average weekday that'll eliminate nearly seven hours a day. the frederick douglass tunnel will be all electric and we'll continue to invest in rail to make it easier for people to use its potential to take thousands of vehicle, thousands of vehicles off the highways including the interstate and save millions of barrels of oil reducing pollution. all the study shows if you get from point a to point b by rail faster than you can by automobile you'd take the rail. this could be a game changer for the environment as well. this is what we're king across the country, not just here. tomorrow i'll be in new york for a similar announcement. the hudson tunnel project. and a critical juncture in the northeast corridor. earlier this month i was in kentucky with republican leader. and the republican governor and de

frederick douglass returned to the white house in august of 1864. as many of you know, lincoln was renominated for the republican nomination for president in the summer of 1864. but the of 1864 was a very bad time for the war effort. and by august, lincoln was convinced that he would lose in his bid for reelection. and so lincoln douglass to come to the white house to meet with him. remember the first time douglass just showed up? this time, lincoln invites him and the two men sit down together and they talk politics for a few minutes. and then lincoln turns to douglass and. he says, douglass, i hate slavery as as you do, and i want to see it abolished altogether. the problem is, lincoln explained, was that the slaves were not running in as great of numbers as lincoln had hoped. in other words, the emancipation proclamation wasn't as effective as lincoln had it might be. and responded by saying, well, the slave owners, they don't tell the slaves about it so they they don't know to run away. and the two men then sat down and concocted a plan where to

i keep thinking about i love stories i traffic in stories i frederick douglass i mean frederick is the man that's the bad brother. monica says she just loves picture. she thinks he's so handsome. she's like a back in. the day i would have been looking at frederick, you know. he's handsome. he's handsome. he's happy. you know, he's the most photographed human being in the 19th century because he understood the technology that we know taking but but but frederick douglass did something fascinating to me is that he is in the chaos of enslavement he was you can read you're not supposed to read when he was living in baltimore, maryland, he used to keep pieces bread in his back pocket. and when he would come, an irish young man, you know, someone, ten or 12, he said, i'll give you some bread if you tell me that word. and so he taught himself how to read by passing bread. then another experience of this chaos with frederick douglass is when he is beaten by an overseer and he runs away, he runs into the woods, but he encounters a prophet slash priest slash medicine man who then tells him that,

who went around the country, friends with frederick douglass. and you heard mama dukes mention shirley chisholm. i was a young staffer on capitol hill, she fell in love with a man from buffalo, what an inspiration. standing up. who would have thought a woman of color could run for president of the united states. then we had hillary clinton, another new yorker. she has been an inspiration to me from the very beginning. then we think about the women who transformed the supreme court. bifort went in this direction. justices ruth bader ginsburg. elena kagan. sonia sotomayor. and as i mentioned we live among legends like dr. hazel dukes, who is still, to this day, at 91, saying we still have that march toward justice. it is not finished yet. we are still working together. each of the women i mentioned redefined leadership in their own way and paved the way for others to follow. and to be clear it wasn't just because they are women they made their mark. they embod dwhrid courage and the character that still defines new yorkers to this day. and above a

and then the one on your left is his brother, karl frederick raises regiment.this is the and a poster behind me here. it's on your right of a regimental recruiting poste which is plastered all over new york. it's a regiment which directly to immigrants, where it's the is th it will create a reflecting a really polyglot collection of different immigrant. so there'll be a kind of it, as it says, italians, hungarians, germans, french patriots. you should up for this regiment and. it'll be led by this dashing a colonel. do you stay as you claims to to have been a great hero, a military hero from from hungary claims to have to be an aristocrat, a to be a a mast a swordsman to have to have have be a master horseman, to be a dancing master, someone who a command of of a of multiple languages, etc.. so and a lot of the the appeal of this regiment is connected with its colonel and it's a richmond which, as you can see from his uniform, a rather elaborate over the top uniform, which designed by frederick stacey and with sorts of of of gold thread, etc. it's quite over th

he is now a leader in frederick helping recruit more talented educators to step into the gap, ronnie, bless you for all of your leadership and all you do. [applause] ronnie's story of using an alternative pathway towards a rewarding profession is a guide to protect guide how we grow our state. our state government has begun to accept real world experience as a substitute for a college education. [applause] and let's be clear is the smart and common sense approach to allow all marylanders to serve. but we have got to go further. to rebuild state government and to give all marylanders an opportunity to be part of it, my administration will be look at current standards to make sure they meet the requirements for the job we must fill. while maryland is home to some of the greatest institutions of higher education affect each and every one of us should be very, very proud. we've got to end the myth young people must attend one in order to be successful. [applause] [applause] that does not have to be the path for every student. it's what is in my path and i know i am not alone, come on corn

[applause] , ronnie in addition ronnie grew up in frederick. and now teaches at oakdale high school. originally we have some oakdale residents over here? representatives, okay proud. originally he is weekly under becoming a juvenile counsel while studying at the university of maryland eastern store all he determined he want to help kids avoid the problems before they even start through marilyn's grow your own program he was introduced to the professionals and he received a a scholarship for tuition and internship and he is now a leader in frederick helping to recruit more talented educators to step into the gap, ronnie, bless you and thank you for your leadership in all you do. >> ronnie story of using an alternative pathway is a guide. it is a guide on how we grow our state. our state government has began to accept real-world experience as a substitute for college education. let's be clear this is a smart and common sense approach that allows all-male enter marylandersco to serve but we gotta go further. to rebuild safe government and give all

host: you mention frederick douglass, who are some of the other important characters in your narrativeilyon woo: there are a lot of people, across the board from abolitionist lecturers, black activists, the president of the united states who commented out on the story and i have a writing partner, we actually used to be running partners and we always would keep each other going and we are doing the same thing on the page. one thing that she pointed out was it is like in the ordinary movie you would have -- not the ordinary movie, the a mainstream movie -- the mainstream movie you have seen over the last number of years you would have henry clay or daniel webster, or more recently frederick. less than at the center of the story. these characters get roles in william and ellen crafts' story, they are great lecturers, self emancipated people who shout them -- show the crafts the story and what it means to be a life of freedom. the president of the united states and the secretary of state daniel webster who have to figure out how they are going to try to help recapture the crafts . interna

someone like frederick doug a set the center of the story. now these characters get walk-on roles and that is sort of how i like to see them. so many of them come in and out, there is douglas and william brown who are great lecturers and people who really show the crafts of telling the story and what it means to live a life in freedom in the north and overseas. there are the president of the united states and secretary of state daniel webster who have to figure out how they are going to recapture the crafts, there are international celebrities who get to know the crafts abroad. lots of people who go in and out of the story and if you take a look at the book, the book jacket, and you undress the book and you read the jacket. you will see there are a lot of people on the inside of the pages, you can see that. but these are some of the many people who you will meet along the way. susan: so the story opens in 1848 make the point that this year is a real seminal one in not only american history but globally, what are the important things that were

these were all principles of frederick law olmsted, and these are principles that we are celebrating, but that we are also rethinking and reimagining in the course of this bicentennial. and so i'm glad that all of you were here. i appreciate the co-sponsorship of the of the capitol. and i hope you will leave today's session thinking again about these public spaces inclusion about mental and physical well-being and sustainability, all issues that olmstead vigorously engaged in the 19th century and that we need to keep engaging in time. so thank you for being here and enjoy the rest of your day and your tours. we'll be happy to tell you the details of those tours once we conclude. well, good afternoon. thank you all for your patience. as we've been trying to get some of these kinks worked out. um, welcome to the rosa parks. my name is donna beisel. i am the interim director of the museum and we are honored t

kara frederick.ms to be a comeuppance for google, twitter of the supreme court. the issue is we do not know of kagan's comment was cut short? what it is about is this. the social media companies amplify bad content by rejiggering their algorithms, right? we have justify while they seem leery of lifting the shield congress gave them against losses from third-party content. when you come down and all this? >> we have old whole report about it, liz. that looks like they are not going to have a broad ruling in this case, if the initial arguments bring anything to bear. it looks like any sort of decision will be more focused. i come down on congress has to act. there are three things that congress can do. they can strip section 2:30 immunity from these platforms, if they censor legitimate political speech, as we have talked about over this program with twitter files et cetera eet clauses for this is a d law. it is very hard to have foreseen the fact that algorithms could amount to editing like you said, r

office with your hand over the frederick douglass bible, which is so moving.ht. great marylander. >> who lived on a plantation on the eastern shore as a slave. the fact is that that won't be built for a while. the polls show that people are not giving him credit for the legislation, for the inflation reduction act, for instance. they won't see the results of that in time for the election. >> but i think that they will. so many of the initiatives that have been done, the billions of dollars that have been dispensed, you are seeing. in the state of maryland, for example, we have put $10 million towards clean buses. we have seen the impact on health care implications and also for the veterans community. we made the largest investment in tax cuts for veterans in our state's history. that also comes on the tail end of the president signing an act for people exposed to burn pits. i served in afghanistan. we saw directly the impact of the burn pits. to see the president taking leadership and how that's having impact on marylanders and people around the country. the p

he's certainly not frederick douglass is. but he's a far cry from where jefferson davis is. but would you conceive that douglass would have it? would you consider for the extending even of a limited enfranchisement as moving the needle a little bit? yeah, i mean, that's a huge move. well, that's the frederick douglass called it. you know, it's he it was the entering wedge. you push that and then he uses a he uses a carpentry metaphor. right. right. you you put in the wedge and then you start hammering at the wedge. it's the opening wedge. but isn't there a rather long period between his that he's not a supporter of universal suffrage? first of all, at the beginning he's talking the persons who should who should be granted citizenship are whites. he doesn't even say men, but he says whites who pay taxes and who provide military, not excluding women. i assume he means women who are paying taxes, not women who are providing service. but of course that phrase has been used to suggest that he's for women's rights, is for women's voting rights. and i don't see anything that would

thursday morning, argon health institute president brian blais and family usa executive director frederickiscussed medicare and medicaid spending as part of the overall federal budget and toxicologist and chemical safety consultant talks about risk of toxic exposure to residents of east palestine, ohio after a train derailment and the response. watch washington journal live at 7:00 eastern thursday morning on c-span or c-span now are free mobile video app. join the discussion with phone calls, facebook comments, texts and tweets. >> president biden arrived at the presidential palace in poland where he met with members of a group of eastern nato allies. much of that meeting was conducted behind closed doors. when president along with the president of romania and poland as well as secretary-general stoltenberg made statements to the press at the top of the meeting. >> mr. president, can i have a photograph before you start? president biden: i don't have time. >> >> distinguish president, distinguish secondary general, distinguished prime minister. ladies and gentle and, i welcome you to the

it comes from frederick douglass, obviously comes from genesis first. but the speech from the 5th of july, 1852, in rochester at corinthian hall, when douglass said, i do not despair of this country, the fiat of the almighty, let there be light, has not yet bent. it's morse, and to it fell to lincoln to shed light in that moment because of the nature of the constitution, the of politics. ultimately lincoln became that instrument. and so i do believe that lincoln himself saw, as he put it, that it's probably light to go on wandering twilight as poor doubting thomas did. i think that's true. but i think the twilight is brighter because of lincoln than it would otherwise be. well, we we feel here at the workshop, of course, that every major historian, even minors, ones need to tackle abraham lincoln. and so after tackling jefferson and jackson and others, why did you feel the need to come to lincoln? well, i now can it the weinberger doctrine. i think you're right. i he's like everest. i think you got to climb him. i if there's one theme in the books i've

yes i mean and you know a lot of people fled i mean frederick douglass fled for life. i mean, they were, you know, knowledgeable, not actively participating, a conspiracy to attack federal facility, which then as now is crossing a line that puts you in a you in a very tenuous category. and, you know, garrett smith's, you know, after you you know, i have to be honest, you know, after the williams after william j dies. garrett smith ceases to be like, you know, sort of an important character to me. but, you know, his he he takes some interesting positions during and beyond the civil war for sure. but that's i don't want to pretend to some sort of expertise or insight that i don't actually have. i've heard different versions that it was about mental breakdown or not. yeah, i think, you know, there definitely other historians far more qualified to address that than me. so i don't want to i don't want to go beyond where you know, where i i'm not going to give a knowledgeable answer. yes. can you talk a little bit about the genes family connection to seward during, his later